OAN Commentary by: Theodore R. Malloch
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Kamala Harris at this moment is being coronated the Queen of the Democrat Party without an election or primary. Yet, she is relatively unknown to most Americans.
The vice president who believes that she should be president has completely embraced and is identified with the Biden agenda, whose legacy she lavishly praised in her very first campaign speech. She owns it. The biased liberal media is fawning all over her and trying to raise her as a political star.
Harris is pretty much the standard California progressive who wants to remake the U.S. into her home state and more particularly, her previous city of residence, San Francisco, which has been labeled “San Fran-sicko” by some detractors.
We have “the goods” on Kamala Harris.
All of it is out there and easily unearthed. Welcome to what is often referred to as the darker side of politics.
Opposition research is nothing more than the systematic gathering, analysis, and utilization of information about political opponents. The aim is to uncover a candidate’s weaknesses, past actions, policy positions, personal history, finances, and potential vulnerabilities.
Kamala, the now un-democratically appointed heir to previous MIA candidiate Joe Biden, has tons of vulnerabilities, inconsistencies, past controversies, and potential skeletons in her closet.
Here’s what we know for sure:
Kamala (or Lotus in Hindi, as there is some controversy about exactly how to pronounce it) Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California, to an Indian Tamil woman and a Jamaican father (whose family admittedly owned slaves.)
As students, they met at the University of California, Berkeley, in the early 1960s, where they were radical political activists. Neither were U.S. citizens. Nor is Kamala by race technically an African American. She has, however, used the diversity card throughout her entire professional career to “get ahead.” For this reason, some commentators have referred to her as the “queen of DEI” and an avid supporter of both Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the BLM movement, which she financially supported.
After fleeing America at the age of eleven, Kamala moved with her mother and sister to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where she attended middle and secondary schooling. Her parents had divorced at the age of seven and she had little to no relationship with her father, a self-acclaimed, Marxist economics professor who taught at Stanford University.
Graduating from the historically-Black Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, Kamala went on to law school at UCB Hastings College of the Law, obtaining her JD degree.
Harris began her legal profession at the Alameda County DA’s office, where she had a rough time and was viewed as less than qualified. She got a job as a favor moving on to the San Francisco DA’s office, where she specialized in crime and famously prosecuted 1,900 convictions for marijuana use, mostly of Black and Hispanic men. Ironically, she later went on air with the popular Black commentator, Charlamagne-tha–God, and bragged about smoking dope while listening to Bob Marley songs.
Kamala was later elected with the help of her then-boyfriend and paramour, a married, Willie Brown, thirty years her senior, and the powerful speaker of the California Assembly, with whom she continued an affair. He appointed her to the Unemployment Appeals Board and to a lucrative position on the California Medical Assistance Commission. He also arranged for her to join the board of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. There, she met many of her high-class, big name donors and patrons.
The major lessons she claimed to have learned are described in her own 2009 book titled “Smart on Crime” which argued that non-violent criminals can be redirected into less punitive systems without jeopardizing public safety. Harris has regularly opposed bail for criminals and supports all of the radical Soros backed district attorneys around the nation.
After being elected attorney general of California in 2010 and again in 2014, Harris, who exhibits unbridled ambition, fought to replace retiring Senator Barbara Boxer and she served as the junior U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021.
Her biggest causes, in an otherwise lackluster tenure in the Senate, were gun control, the Dream Act on citizenship for illegal immigrants, the legalization of cannabis, and abortion, up to and including late term.
Harris favored guaranteed income to people making less than $100,000 annually and free tuition for all college and university students, both plans she co-sponsored with socialist Vermont Senator, Bernie Sanders.
Both of them sought a single-payer health care system putting the government in charge of all health care. She also pledged to never support the death penalty for any crime. Her strongest hostility, playing to the green audience and climate activists, is her absolute opposition to fossil fuels and especially to all oil fracking.
Harris made a name for herself in the vocal opposition to Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, where she showboated and backed his accuser. She also demanded the removal of Stephen Miller, a Trump White House senior advisor, based on emails and demands from the Southern Poverty Law Center accusing him of white nationalism.
Harris also sought the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination, but withdrew prior to the actual primaries as her polling was in the low single digits and she could not raise funds necessary to sustain a serious campaign.
Joe Biden then chose her as his running mate, pledging to have only a Black female in the office by his side. She was inaugurated in January 2021 as VP. Kamala has had full knowledge of his senility and dementia as his closest confidant, and she still hid it from the public.
She opposed all of the Trump administration policies on the border, building the wall, release and return, or stopping the flow of fentanyl. Kamala is against putting the notorious Mexican drug and human smuggling cartels on the U.S. terrorist organizations list. Harris has also voiced how she wishes to abolish ICE.
She has no ideas whatsoever on economics, the market, trade, inflation, or investment. Her limited views as articulated are neo-Marxist and favor more government intervention and regulation, much higher taxes, and industrial policy that mostly benefits her donors.
Lacking foreign policy experience, Harris is perhaps weakest on international affairs. She simply has not been a player. She lambasted President Trump for killing Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps General Soleimani, saying it could lead to another Middle East war.
On Afghanistan, Harris claims she was the “last person in the room” before Biden’s disastrous withdrawal. According to the national security advisor, Harris has been an integral part of every important decision made by Biden in his tenure in office, there is no sunlight between them.
Harris has repeatedly demanded stronger conditions on aid to Israel and its war against Hamas in Gaza. This week, she refused to publicly meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. She has also vocally supported and defended Palestinian causes and pro-Hamas protestors, including those on U.S. college and university campuses.
Over her relatively short political career, Harris was known as a campaigner who is high on fanfare and hype. In the end, she always flamed out. She wants to be seen as a powerhouse, but is not. Her prosecutorial overreach got her into a lot of trouble and there was often more bark than bite.
Wanting to be seen as “smart on crime,” the very title of her book, Harris rarely exhibits workable policies or ample follow through. She often embellishes her record and lacks legislative achievements. According to a close analysis of Senate records and rankings by objective groups, Kamala Harris was the most liberal U.S. Senate member, even more left from senators like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Harris is what has been termed a “California Democrat” with far-left positions on just about every issue. She has allies in the most progressive wing of her party, including California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has recently backed her as the party nominee in 2024. Her top policy advisor appears to be her younger sister Maya, a political commentator at far-left network MSNBC.
Harris has become synonymous with her pilled-out behavior and obnoxious cackle laugh, which she seemingly cannot control. A slew of memes of her putting “word salads” together have gone viral. Many of them are hilariously funny. One is on the “passing of time,” another on “being unburdened by what has been,” and one on a coconut falling off of a tree. Her academic and intellectual achievements are threadbare, and she has been dubbed a “light weight” by those in her own party.
Harris married her husband in 2014. He has labeled himself a “reformed Jew,” and is a Hollywood entertainment lawyer. Harris has no children of her own. The couple have a reported net worth of $5.8 million dollars. Her recent financial disclosure papers showed her worth alone to be $1.7 million. She made over $800,000 on the generous advance payments and sale of her two less than best-selling books.
Queen Kamala is being coronated as we speak. She loves all the attention, lavish spending of OPM (other people’s money) and has a strong taste for luxury hotels and first-class flights. She sees herself as “special.” But as a truly untested leader who gamed the system, there may soon be buyer’s remorse on the part of her followers and the elites who brought her to power in a palace coup. Kamala’s approval rating as VP stands at 32%, the lowest ever recorded for anyone occupying that position.
As the poster child of an identity politician, she also came to power in a one-party leftist state, and she lacks the skills to be president, let alone unite and transform the whole country unwillingly into becoming California.
UPDATE – 07/25/24 – 11:55 A.M. PST: The California Medical Association Commission was changed to “The California Medical Assistance Commission.”
Theodore Roosevelt Malloch is the acclaimed author of three books on Trump. Hired: An Insider’s Look at the Trump Victory, with an afterword by Nigel Farage; The Plot to Destroy Trump, with a foreword by Roger Stone; and Trump’s World: Geo Dues, with a foreword by Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of Interior, Matteo Salvini.
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